Yesterday I took down the artificial Christmas tree and moved it to the attic. This morning my husband and I lugged a 110-pound boxed furniture…
Tag: celiac disease
At the Massachusetts of Technology, where I work and teach, there is a well-known expression in our community about how it feels to be a student there.…
For more than a decade — and possibly longer, but a decade is about all I remember — I have been diagnosed as anemic. My hematocrit (red…
As someone who is diabetic and on a gluten-free diet, living in a foreign country for a year will present a whole new set of challenges.
The only way to treat celiac disease is to go on a gluten-free diet, eliminating all wheat, rye, and barely from your diet. People who keep kosher for Passover are required to give up almost exactly the same grains as people on a gluten-free diet.
A friend of mine recently happened to run into a woman she hadn’t seen in a long time. The other woman had lost weight, and my friend complimented her…
Eating can never be a mindless pleasure when you have diabetes. First, there is the physical pain of every insulin injection (I’m old-fashioned…